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Ba lu jun xin si jun zhu ge di ban shi ji gou 八路军新四军驻各地办事机构 by Ed. Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun li shi zi liao cong shu bian shen wei yuan hui中国人民解放军历史资料丛书编审委员会
Call Number: UA837 .B337 1999 China
Published/Created: 1999-2009
Guo jia ji yi : Hai wai xi jian kang zhan ying xiang ji = National memories / 国家记忆 : 海外稀见抗战影像集 by She hui ke xue yuan jin dai shi yan jiu suo
Call Number: DS777.5 .G8625 2015 China
Published/Created: 2015
Book series of historical photographs from collections outside China on the history of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945.

731 Butai sakusei shiryō / Tanaka Akira, Matsumura Takao hen kaisetsu. 七三一部隊作成資料 by eds. Tanaka Akira 田中明 and Matsumura Takao 松村高夫
Call Number: DS777.533.B55 A165 1991 Japan
Published/Created: 1991
Reproduction of materials related to Unit 731.
Guntai keisatsu no tairitsu to Kenpei Shireibu Shigematsu kankei bunsho II / Kita Hiroaki hen kaisetsu. 軍隊警察の対立と憲兵司令部重松関係文書 II by ed. Kita Hiroaki 北博昭
Call Number: UB825.J3 G95 1998 Japan
Published/Created: 1998
Reproduces manuscript copies of documents about Japanese military police from the early 1930s.
Jūgonen sensōki gunki fūki kankei shiryō / henshū kaisetsu Yoshida Yutaka, Matsuno Seiya. 十五年戦争期軍紀・風紀関係資料 by eds. Yoshida Yutaka 吉田裕 and Matsuno Seiya 松野誠也
Call Number: UB785.J3 J85 2001 Japan
Published/Created: 2001
Materials pertaining to military rules and discipline.
Nihon gaikō bunsho. Nitchū Sensō 日本外交文書. 日中戦争 by ed. Gaimushō 外務省
Call Number: DS777.52 .N54 2011 Japan
Published/Created: 2011
Reproduction of historical documents and archival records, published by Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Nitchū Sensō to Chū-So kankei : 1937-nen Soren gaikō bunsho : hōyaku, kaidai, kaisetsu 日中戦争と中ソ関係 : 1937年ソ連外交文書 : 邦訳・解題・解說
Call Number: DK68.7.C6 R8732163 2018 Japan
Published/Created: 2018
The Sino-Japanese War and the Sino-Soviet relations in Soviet diplomatic document of 1937 : translation and commentaries
Puropaganda posutā ni miru Nippon no sensō: 135-mai ga utsushidasu shinjitsu / hencho. プロパガンダ・ポスターにみる日本の戦争 : 135枚が映し出す真実 by edited by Tajima, Natsuko
Call Number: D810.P7 J379 2016
Published/Created: 2016
Reproduction of Japanese wartime propaganda posters.
Rikugun Gun'i Gakkō bōeki kenkyū hōkoku. Dai 2-bu 陸軍軍医学校防疫研究報告. 第2部
Call Number: R847.7.J3 R55 Japan
Published/Created: 2004-2005
Research report of the Japanese Army Military Medical School, which published much of the scientific results of experimentation in biological and chemical warfare carried out by Unit 731.
Senjō nisshi ni miru jūgun ianfu gokuhi shiryōshū / hen kaisetsu. 戦場日誌にみる従軍慰安婦極秘資料集 by ed. Kŭm, Pyŏng-dong 琴秉洞
Call Number: D810.C698 S45 1992 Japan
Published/Created: 1992
Reproduction of materials related to the "comfort woman" system.
Shiryōshū shūsen chokugo no Taiwan 資料集終戦直後の台湾 by ed. Kawahara Isao 河原功
Call Number: DS777.52 S57 2015 Japan
Published/Created: 2015
Reproduction of materials pertaining to the end of World War II in Taiwan.
Shō Kaiseki no shokan gaikō : Nitchū Sensō, mō hitotsu no senjō 蔣介石の書簡外交 : 日中戦争、もう一つの戦場 by Asada, Masafumi 麻田雅文
Call Number: DS777.488.C5 A83 2021 Japan
Published/Created: 2021
English title: "Another frontline: correspondence between Chiang Kai-shek and the world leaders, 1937-1945"

Translating the Occupation by Jonathan Henshaw (Editor); Craig A. Smith (Editor); Norman Smith (Editor)
Call Number: DS777.5 .T73 2021
ISBN: 9780774864466
Published/Created: 2021-03-03
This volume provides a diverse selection of important primary sources from this period. Contributors have translated Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts on a wide range of subjects.
Ka'erxun yu Luosifu tan Zhongguo: 1937-1945 卡尔逊与罗斯福谈中国 : 1937-1945 by Lu Tonglin, Wu Yun
Call Number: DS777.52 .K385 2017 China
ISBN: 9787547612507
Published/Created: 2017
Reproduction of English-language materials pertaining to the Sino-Japanese War, primarily related to US Marine Corps general officer Evans Carlson and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Introduction, table of contents, and other supplementary information are in Chinese.

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